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Posted on 04/25/2005 7:03:35 AM PDT by KidGlock
Teacher Charged With Molesting Student Nearly 100 Times
POSTED: 6:47 am EDT April 25, 2005 UPDATED: 8:11 am EDT April 25, 2005
COCOA, Fla. -- Hundreds of students and teachers at Endeavour Elementary School in Brevard County are walking on campus Monday for the first time since learning of disturbing allegations against an instructor.
Cocoa police arrested a veteran teacher over the weekend and charged him with molesting a student nearly 100 times.
Daniel Cliatt, 29, is accused of a crime so heinous, for his first appearance deputies dressed him in a bulletproof vest. Wearing the vest with his hands shackled in front of him, Cliatt appeared before a judge for the first time Sunday, when he answered the judge's questions.
Cliatt is accused of raping a 13-year-old repeatedly after school, at school, every day for months.
Cocoa police say the 29-year-old, 360-pound sixth grade teacher started by showing the boy pornography, then moved to sex acts, almost 100 of them. That didn't stop until, police say, another teacher walked into Cliatt's classroom Friday after school.
"At first, she walked in and didn't know what she was seeing. But she ran out and grabbed a supervisor," explained Detective Barbara Matthews, Cocoa Police Department.
Cliatt has been a teacher at Endeavour Elementary School for five years and he's worked there for 10. The school district is already planning a termination hearing.
"We have been very, very cooperative. We've spent a lot of time with the Cocoa Police Department in order to assist them in this investigation," said Sara Stern, Brevard County School District.
Cliatt is a 2000 graduate of Rollins College. He's been at Endeavour Elementary School for 10 years, first as a teacher's assistant, then as a second grade teacher. He most recently taught the sixth grade. Cliatt was in charge of 20 students.
According to the Brevard County School District, Cliatt passed every FBI and FDLE background check.
Sounds like the comments on an Elizabeth Smart story.
If this creep had not been caught, we may have had "another kid suicide" or twenty years from now 10 adults would finally have had the nerve to speak out.
I have dealt with these cases. Kids don't say anything because they fear these animals and because they are too embarrassed and humiliated--in essence they feel so guilty they are willing to shoulder the blame.
Tell anybody and I'll kill you. After I tell everybody what a punk b*tch you are. Prison culture right there in the school. Multiculturalism at its finest.
Screw the hangman idea. Paint him down with chicken parts and stake him out near the swamp. Let the gators get him.
Semper Fi
He has a contract, so the administration needs to meet to officially vote to terminate his contract.
And third ... the media never uses the term "homosexual" when referring to adult-child relationships. We don't want to upset the "gay community" who already have to suffer from an intolerant society.
This "teacher" falls into that small percentage of males who are homosexuals and they collectively have a very considerable percentage of all child molestation cases. But don't look for the media to point this out.
Sorry. My kids wouldn't have let this go on 100 times so I wanna know why this kid did.
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The Department of Education should be abolished immediately. There was a time when the biggest problem was incompetence and wasting money. Now the health and safety of children is the biggest problem.
I didn't blame the victim, in fact I was very careful to say so if you read my post. I simply asked why this kid let this go on 100 times and kept quiet, not telling anyone, including his friends.
Do you know that's what happened, or is that a surmise ? Just asking the question.
Bingo :)
No, I'm just saying that if he told the kid that, he would likely shet up and just be miserable. That it is not that surprising to me that he was able to indimidate him into keeping quiet. That's how a lot of these jokers operate.
It is skull-banging-ridiculous that the media still doesn't understand the exaggerated occurence of molestation where a homosexual is the predator. Adjusted for the % of the population, they are many times more likely to molest your kids than a straight person.
It took the writer until the 5th paragraph to say that the victim was a boy. Shameful.
Well....wait a minute. Where right is wrong, and wrong is now right......maybe he will become the school administrator now. Or better yet....the NEA regional rep.
Geesh, I loathe the NEA..!!
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